Heritage record
Theor Rock Carvings, Nar
Gilgit-BaltistanRock ArtProtected
About 2 km further east of Lupa Mohallah, on the right bank of the Indus, and on the left side of the nala, above a hillock some rocks preserving rock carvings. The site is called Theor. Here we found about 115 carvings of ibexes, human beings, birds, leopards, horse riders, stupas and symbol of trees in different sizes. Traces of over writings and later period carvings are also noticed. This site is associated to multiple periods.
- Record ID
- 7835
- Province / territory
- Gilgit-Baltistan
- District
- Shigar
- Typology
- Archaeological Site
- Subtype
- Rock Art
- Period
- Proto Historic
- Legal status
- Not Protected — UNVERIFIED; no statute or notification cited
- Coordinates
- 35.34262, 75.82810 — source-provided, not field-verified
- Verification status
- source_record; automatically_standardized; verification_required
- Sources
- Hauptmann, H.. (Miscellaneous). Pak-German Archaeological Mission to the Northern Areas of the Heidelberg Academy for the Humanities and Sciences. Miscellaneous.
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